354 HAW GROSBE A K. 



C. Haw Gr. Br. Zool. i. N" 113. 



Le Gros-bec, De Buffon, iii. 44.4. tab. xxvii. — PA Enl. 99, 100, 

 Loxia coccothrauftes. Stenkneck, Faun, Suec. N° 222. — Latham, ii, iog.'=— 

 Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



/^R. With a large conic thick bill : crown and cheeks bay : hind 

 part of the neck of a fine grey: chin black: breaft dirty 

 fiefh-color: back, and coverts of wings, deep brown: tail fhort 5 . 

 inner y/ebs white. Weight two ounces. 

 Place. Is a fpecies that feldom is (ctn far north. Newly arrived in 



Schonen, where it does much danaage to cherry-orchards. Lives - 

 on the kernels of fruits, and even on walnuts and almonds, which 

 it eafily breaks with its ftrong bill. Is migratory : appears only. 

 accidentally in England. Known only in the weft and fouth of the 

 Ruffian empire, where fruits grow, wild or cultivated. Difappears 

 in other parts, as far as beyond lake Baikal; where they come from 

 the fouth in great plenty, and feed on the pyrus baccata, a tree pe- 

 culiar to that country. They build their neft,,like that of the 

 Turtle, with dry flicks fattened with flender roots j and lay five 

 blueiih eggs, fpotted with brown. 



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